DJBooth Features

J. Cole has been a star for years, but it wasn't until this week that he can add "platinum recording artist" to his resume.
Over the past seven days, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, the third full-length album of his...
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Music festivals tend to feel overcrowded, clustered, too many cell phones, too many selfie sticks. Forgotten CDs and event flyers flood the sidewalks where the homeless await mercy in the form of a quarter, grace in the form...
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I completely understand that this is a weird post since it's about how I won't be doing a follow-up review of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, not yet....
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This entire procress is really making me appreciate what it's like to play in the March Madness tournament. I mean sure, the actual atheletes are actually playing games and spraining ankles and what not, but for three...
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For me, Wale is like that childhood friend in your group who you wouldn't have been friends with if he didn't live in your neighborhood. He drives you crazy sometimes, you get why he drives other people crazy,...
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Tapping into your childhood memories can be a funny thing. While events are shaping and defining hip-hop we usually don’t even have the presence of mind to recognize what’s going on. Case in point, a huge...
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DJBooth Nation is the greatest nation!
Seriously, I love each one of y'all. If you ever need to crash on a futon, grab a dogsitter or want to rock a Detox shirt my door is always open; it's the least I can do. I...
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Welcome back to another edition of the "This Week in Hype" podcast, the only podcast that gives every listener a free waffle. Ok, so that's a complete lie, but waffles are delicious, so.....
This week, I had a rant...
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On Monday, Action Bronson released his major label debut, Mr. Wonderful, and the Queens emcee seemed to be on top of the world. But at least some of that good will seemed to run out by Friday.
Today, after a week that...
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The other day my Grandma said she "forgot about the internet."
I couldn't even imagine what that would be like.
Since the days of away messages and Geocities, there hasn't been a day that I haven't...
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